Yuechen Yang Yiman Wang Film 120 03/17/2018 Section H Closes up in Racism in the Cinema of 1915: The Cheat and The Birth of a Nation The year 1915 was a notable year in cinema. Not only there were motion pictures importances mentioned through directors; the formation of the Motion Pictures Directors Association; but also some of the iconic and celebrated films were created in this period. Undoubtedly, two classical films were Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat and D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a…
Dulhania Le Jayenge’ is analyzed to show how diaspora has been represented through its lens. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) (1995) a Yash Raj production, is an iconic and a very popular Bollywood movie of the 90’s. DDLJ mark a sea-change in Hindi Cinema. The story is about Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) and Simran (Kajol) who meet in Europe and fall for each other. Raj then follows her to India, so as to win her and her strict father’s…
Movies are considered as one of the popular forms of entertainment among the Filipino people, directly employing some 260,000 Filipinos and generating around ₱2 billion revenues annually. This study will measure how featured tourism destination as local movie setting induces the tourist in their choice of a destination, besides marketing means and their previous experiences. To address the problem I will be conducting a qualitative research method such FGD, interview and survey. Results pointed…
Aamir Khan Transformation Title: Aamir Khan Talks About Body Transformation Bollywood Celebrities fitness tips: We all are the fans of Bollywood, one of the largest film industry in the world. The achievements of Bollywood in the entertainment industry are very high and still Indian film industry continues entertaining its million of audiences in all over the world. However, This is not an easy task for actors and actresses to work in a movie, this needs a lot of hard work and dedication to…
Social concerns of humanity in Bicycle Thief The most significant events in cinema and art in the early 1940s were the emergence and rapid development of the Italian neorealism. Moreover, it was one of the most striking and perhaps the first major artistic phenomenon of the post-war years, not only in Italy but also all over the world. Neorealism as a movement, which arose in post-war time, offered a close look into the everyday life of ordinary people. Originating in the wake of the resistance…
Who knew Undertale a RPG is the best game ever? Undertale is a roleplaying game where you play as a child who fell down a mountain into a place called the Underground. The Underground is where the monsters live because the humans put a magical seal to trap them down there, inside the Underground you can spare or kill everyone. Anything can enter, nothing can leave, or so they thought. Undertale is the best game because you get to choose what your gonna do in the game, The characters make the…
Heroic Heroes “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed. Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity”-Ricky Martin. Heroes are courageous and willing to lose their life for other people or for themselves.Their are 3…
At one point in an individuals life, the drive, ambition, and will to accomplish a specific goal will become a key aspect towards the choices they will make, in order to insure the success of their future. Whiplash an Oscar winning independent film, helps convey this ideology, but in a very unorthodox manner. The director chooses a unique approach to presenting this message by turning what appears to be an unethical abusive musical film, into an astonishing success story. This approach helped…
Field Notes In this week, I interview two of my friends (Rupinder and Priya) to collect data for my anthropology class assignment. Rupinder and Priya both were born in India, so they are know as Asian Indian. Rupinder came to U.S.A when she was five year old so she is raced and live in U.S.A, but Priya was rased in Indian then come here in U.S.A in 2010. Both of my friends speak Punjabi as primary languages with their family members but they both also knew how to speak English and Hindi as a…
As a term, expanded cinema generally refers to cinematic exhibition or spectacle in which the concept of established filmic practice and structure is broadened by incorporating immersive and dynamic elements as opposed to single-screen viewing experience. ‘Expanded’ components may be evident in the materiality of the spectacle, such as in the employment of numerous surfaces for a screening, juxtaposition of various interdisciplinary mediums not restricted to cinema, immersion of the viewer and…